It is reported that the Japan Fair Trade Commission will launch an investigation into the search services of major domestic and foreign IT companies that use generative AI over concerns that display of news articles in AI-generated search results may constitute an abuse of dominant position in violation of the antimonopoly law. The Commission is expected to target companies such as Japanese tech giant LY Corp. and U.S. firms Google and Microsoft, all of which provide AI search services, as well as conversational AI operators such as OpenAI and Perplexity AI Inc. The decision comes amid a series of lawsuits and protests against Perplexity by Japanese news organisations over a conversational AI service, alleging copyright infringement and raising concerns that the system uses news articles without permission.
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